
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Role of Digital Innovation and Emerging Technologies
Emerald Publishing Limited
Will be published approx. on 11. December 2025
Book
Hardback
268 pages
978-1-80592-524-8 (ISBN)
Description
"Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa is essential reading for anyone wishing to integrate an intersectional, rights-based approach to digital innovation and technologies to move towards substantive equality."
-from the foreword by TLALENG MOFOKENG, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health
In Sub-Saharan Africa, digital innovation and emerging technologies are reshaping the landscape of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). As digital solutions gain ground, they offer hope for improved access to services, enhanced health outcomes, and community empowerment. However, these advancements also present privacy, regulation, and equity concerns, particularly where healthcare access is uneven and digital literacy varies widely. Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Digital Innovation and Emerging Technologies explores the intersection of digital innovation and SRHR within the African context. Edited by renowned experts, this work explores how digital tools can improve the accessibility, quality, and reach of SRHR services, while also addressing legal, ethical, and human rights considerations. Authors highlight both the promise and pitfalls of digital health solutions, offering insights into how policies can be shaped to protect rights and promote the responsible use of technology.
-from the foreword by TLALENG MOFOKENG, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health
In Sub-Saharan Africa, digital innovation and emerging technologies are reshaping the landscape of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). As digital solutions gain ground, they offer hope for improved access to services, enhanced health outcomes, and community empowerment. However, these advancements also present privacy, regulation, and equity concerns, particularly where healthcare access is uneven and digital literacy varies widely. Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Digital Innovation and Emerging Technologies explores the intersection of digital innovation and SRHR within the African context. Edited by renowned experts, this work explores how digital tools can improve the accessibility, quality, and reach of SRHR services, while also addressing legal, ethical, and human rights considerations. Authors highlight both the promise and pitfalls of digital health solutions, offering insights into how policies can be shaped to protect rights and promote the responsible use of technology.
Reviews / Votes
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Digital Innovation and Emerging Technologies is a timely and powerful contribution to the growing conversation on how technology is reshaping health and human rights across the continent. What makes this volume stand out is how thoughtfully it brings together voices from law, public health, and gender justice to show that digital innovation is not merely a technical advance-it is profoundly political and personal. By anchoring the discussion in the lived realities of African communities, the editors remind us that digital tools must be shaped by, and serve, the people they are meant to reach. This book compels us to interrogate through a justice lens with issues like data privacy, digital equity, and meaningful access-not as side concerns, but as central to advancing SRHR across Africa. It is both a bold call to action and a practical guide-essential reading for anyone committed to health justice and human dignity in our rapidly evolving digital age. -- Allan Achesa Maleche, Executive Director, KELIN; Global Health and Human Rights Lawyer This book is essential for those of us working toward the realization of sexual and reproductive health rights today. As we grapple with the promise and perils of technological innovation, this collection brings new understanding to a quickly shifting landscape. With the fast pace of well-resourced developments in technology, human rights authorities, scholars, and advocates can feel confounded by the vast implications of tech. Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Digital Innovation and Emerging Technologies answers crucial legal questions and identifies important gaps, providing a foundation for further inquiry and action to ensure human rights in the face of technological development. The editors bring together for the first time an array of perspectives from a range of disciplines to consider key questions and developments in sexual and reproductive health rights and tech. Although the authors focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, the contributors' insights and analysis have great relevance to scholarship and practice in other regions and for international human rights law broadly. The power of technology to improve sexual and reproductive health for all is tremendous, but the human rights challenges innovation now poses are even more substantial. We must take a robust, informed, and multisectoral approach to securing rights while harnessing technological advancements in health. This book lays a path forward. -- Patty Skuster, MPH Associate Director of Accreditation, University of PennsylvaniaMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Bingley
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
560 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80592-524-8 (9781805925248)
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Persons
Satang Nabaneh is Assistant Professor of Practice at the University of Dayton Human Rights Center, USA. She is also Global Fellow at CMI-UiB Centre on Law & Social Transformation, Bergen, Norway. Recognized for her impactful contributions, she was named one of 10 exceptionally talented African scholars to watch in 2024 by The Africa Report.
Ebenezer Durojaye is a Professor of Law at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa. He has been involved in research, teaching and the drafting of important norms and standards in relation to socio-economic rights and sexual and reproductive health and rights in Africa.
Ebenezer Durojaye is a Professor of Law at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa. He has been involved in research, teaching and the drafting of important norms and standards in relation to socio-economic rights and sexual and reproductive health and rights in Africa.
Editor
University of Dayton, USA
University of Pretoria, South Africa
Content
Chapter 1. Digital Innovation, Technologies and the Right to Sexual and Reproductive Health; Satang Nabaneh and Ebenezer Durojaye
Chapter 2. The Legal and Ethical Implications of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Africa; Olanike S. Adelakun
Chapter 3. Assisted Reproductive Technology and Emerging Controversies: Does Human Rights Provide any Guidance?; Obiajulu Nnamuchi
Chapter 4. Surrogacy through Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Zimbabwe: Moving Towards Regulation and Improved Access; Linet Sithole and Idaishe Zhou
Chapter 5. The Application of Digital Technologies to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Nigeria: A Focus on Family Planning and Contraceptive Access; Olubayo Oluduro
Chapter 6. Bridging the Analogue Digital Divide: Strengthening Adolescents' Knowledge of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Kenya through Digital Technologies; Kerigo Odada
Chapter 7. A Scoping Review of the Efficacy of ICT in Promoting the Participation of Adolescents in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters in Zambia; Chipo Mushota Nkhata
Chapter 8. The Role of Digital Media in Facilitating Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Advocacy and Communication Among Youth in Kenya: A Practitioner's Perspective; Christine; Sayo, Samuel Ngigi, and Satang Nabaneh
Chapter 9. The Potential of Using Telemedicine in Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Zimbabwe: Opportunities and Challenges; Kudzaiishe Seti and Cowen Dziva
Chapter 10. Digital Technologies: Evaluating the Impact of Business Practices on Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health in the SADC Region; Michelle R. Maziwisa
Chapter 11. Too late or too soon? Evaluation of the Role of the African Children's Committee in the use of Digital Technologies in the Promotion and Protection of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of the Girl Child in Africa; Robert D. Nanima
Chapter 12. Examining the role of the African Commission on Human and People's Rights in addressing the link Between Digital Technologies and Sexual and Peproductive Health and Rights; Ebenezer Durojaye and Sindiso Nkomo
Chapter 2. The Legal and Ethical Implications of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Africa; Olanike S. Adelakun
Chapter 3. Assisted Reproductive Technology and Emerging Controversies: Does Human Rights Provide any Guidance?; Obiajulu Nnamuchi
Chapter 4. Surrogacy through Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Zimbabwe: Moving Towards Regulation and Improved Access; Linet Sithole and Idaishe Zhou
Chapter 5. The Application of Digital Technologies to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Nigeria: A Focus on Family Planning and Contraceptive Access; Olubayo Oluduro
Chapter 6. Bridging the Analogue Digital Divide: Strengthening Adolescents' Knowledge of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Kenya through Digital Technologies; Kerigo Odada
Chapter 7. A Scoping Review of the Efficacy of ICT in Promoting the Participation of Adolescents in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters in Zambia; Chipo Mushota Nkhata
Chapter 8. The Role of Digital Media in Facilitating Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Advocacy and Communication Among Youth in Kenya: A Practitioner's Perspective; Christine; Sayo, Samuel Ngigi, and Satang Nabaneh
Chapter 9. The Potential of Using Telemedicine in Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Zimbabwe: Opportunities and Challenges; Kudzaiishe Seti and Cowen Dziva
Chapter 10. Digital Technologies: Evaluating the Impact of Business Practices on Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health in the SADC Region; Michelle R. Maziwisa
Chapter 11. Too late or too soon? Evaluation of the Role of the African Children's Committee in the use of Digital Technologies in the Promotion and Protection of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of the Girl Child in Africa; Robert D. Nanima
Chapter 12. Examining the role of the African Commission on Human and People's Rights in addressing the link Between Digital Technologies and Sexual and Peproductive Health and Rights; Ebenezer Durojaye and Sindiso Nkomo